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SPCE 611; Sections 1 -2 Study guide for Exam 1 withVerified Solutions
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Negative punishment - ✔✔Something taken away to decrease behavior in the future.
EX: Someone tells a dirty joke and no one laughs. He stops telling dirty jokes.
Stimulus control. - ✔✔When a discriminant operant occurs at a higher freq in the presence of
come antecedent conditions than others.
EX: Alarm clock goes off = get out of bed. Alarm clock does not go off= stay in bed.
Behavioral contingency. - ✔✔Three-term contingency. Antecedent, behavior, consequence.
Respondent conditioning. - ✔✔New stimuli elicits response.
EX: Before conditioning, dog does not salivate when there's a bell but salivates when it sees
food. After conditioning, dog salivates when bell and food is paired.
Operant conditioning paradigm. - ✔✔Baby cries - mom holds baby - baby stops crying.
Parsimony. - ✔✔The idea that simple, logical explanations must be rules out before more
complex explanations are considered.
Experimental analysis. - ✔✔Which branch of behavioral analysis focuses on basic research?
Mentalism. - ✔✔The approach to understanding behavior that assumes that a mental
, dimension exists.
Applied. - ✔✔The defining characteristic of ABA that focuses on investigating socially
significant
behaviors
Analytic. - ✔✔The defining characteristic of ABA that demonstrates experimental control over
the occurrence and non-occurrence of behavior
Environment - ✔✔The controlling variables of primary importance in ABA are located here.
Antecedent stimuli - ✔✔Respondent behavior is elicited by...
By the individual. - ✔✔Operant behavior is emitted by...
Conditioned reflexes. - ✔✔An example of respondent conditioning.
Consequences. - ✔✔Operant behavior is selected by...
Anecdotal observation. - ✔✔A descriptive and temporally sequenced account of behavior in
the
natural environment.
The relevance of behavior - ✔✔What states that a target behavior should only be selected
when it can be determined that the behavior will produce natural reinforcement?
The principle of habilitation. - ✔✔What determines the degree to which a person's behavior
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